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Brandon P. Labbree
09 Dec 2022
BioSocial Methods Collaborative | Research Center for Group Dynamics | Institute for Social Research | University of Michigan | 426 Thompson Street | Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Education
M.A., Psychology
Rutgers University
Camden, NJ
2016 - 2014
- Thesis: Accuracy of Gender and Ethnic Labels and Personality Perception As Moderated by Prejudice
- Advisor: Wayne Chan
B.A., Psychology, Sociology (minor Childhood Studies/Women & Gender Studies)
Rutgers University
Camden, NJ
2014 - 2010
- Minors: Childhood Studies / Women’s and Gender Studies
- Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 3.965)
Research Experience
Research Technician Associate
BioSocial Methods Collaborative
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Current - September 2021
- Using behavioral coding, psychophysiological, and tradtiional behavioral methods online and in a homelike setting, conducting research that bridges biology and behavior tackling varied interdiscplinary topics.
- Assisted in hosting annual reserch training workshops for early career reseearchers and graduate students in public health ad related fields
- Worked on several projects exploring (among other things):
- how environmental context can impact perceptions and preferences of scents;
- how different framings and can influence individuals’ appraisal of situations and influence capicity/cognitive reserves;
- how co-parents undergo bhevaioral and physiological syncrany in a mildly stressful situation with a young child
Full-time Research Assistant & Lab Manager
(PI: Alexander Todorov)
Princeton University
June 2020 - January 2017
- Using psychophysical, neuroimaging, and general experimental methods in the lab and online, investigating how people evaluate their environments and how these evaluations shape perceptions, decisions, and interactions.
- Worked on several projects exploring (among other things):
- how the distribution of facial features in an environment may bias people’s evaluations of others;
- how people integrate physical appearance and individualizing information in their impressions of others;
- how people are able to associate affective information with faces and its limitations;
- how people’s mental images of a prototypical group member differ depending upon the label used to describe said group (e.g., labeling immigrants as “illegal” vs. “legal”);
- data-driven models of social perception, and the relative contributions of consensus and consistency in decision making.
Graduate Student Researcher
(PI: Wayne Chan)
Rutgers University, Camden
September 2016 - September 2014
- Studied the effect of observer personality in person perception and bias using survey-based methods.
- Worked on projects exploring:
- how people use stereotypes to judge strangers’ personality from minimal external information;
- how personality predicts the degree people ascribe humanity to the elderly and people with mental illnesses;
Volunteer Undergraduate Research Assistant
(PI: Wayne Chan)
Rutgers University, Camden
May 2014 - January 2014
- Studied the effect of observer personality in person perception and bias using survey-based methods.
- Worked on project exploring:
- how prejudice towards various across various age groups and how it may influence attraction;
Volunteer Undergraduate Research Assistant
(PI: Christopher Nave)
Rutgers University, Camden
May 2013 - Janaury 2012
- Using behavioral coding using the Riverside Behavioral Q-set, studied the impact and stability of personality over the lifespan and its impact on behaviors.
- Worked on projects exploring:
- how childhood personality impacts health behaviors and cognition several decades later;
- how gay and lesbian couples provide social support and regulate their partners’ health behaviors;
Teaching Experience
Online Adjunct Instructor
Instructor for Social Research and Statistics (SOC-400-O500)
Grand Canyon University
Current - 2021
- Serving as an instructor for 8-week online section of required research methods course, adhering to departmental standards and requirements, moderating discussion question, providing supplemental materials, and resources, grading assignments, and managing classroom.
Tutor
Independent Contractor
Self
2020 - 2017
- Tutored both traditional college students and adult learners in statistics, psychology, neuroscience, and general SPSS use, utilizing both in-person and online settings.
Teaching Assistant
Camden Department of Psychology
Rutgers University
Spring 2015
- Course: Statistics for Social Sciences (50:830:250) (Instructor: Wayne Chan)
- Prepared and gave weekly class lectures, created and graded weekly homework assignments and exams, and met with students for additional course assistance in small groups as well as open sessions.
Faculty Assistant
Camden Department of Psychology
Rutgers University
Spring 2015 - Fall 2014
- Courses: Social Psychology (50:830:335) (Instructor: Wayne Chan) & Psychology of Prejudice (50:830:461) (Instructor: Wayne Chan)
- Moderated online discussion forums and graded students’ weekly reaction blog assignments.
Selected Manuscripts, Publications, and Posters
Manuscripts Under Review or Revision
Insta-learn: Face stereotypes emerge and persist through insufficient statistical learning.
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Under Revisions
- Authored with Xuechunzi Bai, Stefan Uddenberg, and Alexander Todorov.
- https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/te3s4
Data-driven models of face-based trustworthiness judgments unconfounded by attractiveness
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Under Review
- Authored with DongWon Oh, Nicole Wedel, and Alexander Todorov
- https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p8mcg
Published Publications
Learning the affective value of people: More than affect-based mechanisms
Acta Psychologica
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2020
- Authored with Chiara Ferrari, DongWon Oh, and Alexander Todorov.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103011
Posters
Who humanizes others?: The role of openness in humanization of people with mental illness and the elderly
Poster presented at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Convention in San Diego, CA
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2016
- Authored with Matthew Hackman, Andres G. Martinez, and Wayne Chan
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27689.03687
Accuracy of gender, not ethnic, labels bias observer judgments of personality
Poster presented at the Association of Psychological Science Annual Meeting in New York City, NY
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2015
- Authored with Wayne Chan
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18461.56807